The farmhouse burns to the ground and the police consider the ordeal to be over. Sometime later, Mark is at Leigh's beach house for dinner, while Jennifer is shown playing on the beach with her dog. Leigh explains that Jennifer is adjusting to living with her, though she still has occasional nightmares, but with diminishing frequency. She has returned to school and is making new friends. She tells Mark that although Jennifer does not really look like her, sometimes she reminds her of Laura. Jennifer asks to go for one more swim before dinner, at which time she turns and waves to Mark and Leigh on the balcony, revealing a red hourglass-shaped birthmark on her abdomen, the same one that Laura had, indicating that Laura was her mother and that she has inherited the "curse of the black widow". Cast Tony Franciosa as Mark Higbie Vic Morrow as Lt. Conti Donna Mills as Leigh Lockwood Patty Duke as Laura Lockwood/Valerie Steffan (credited as Patty Duke Astin) June Lockhart as Mrs. Lockwood June Allyson as Olga Sid Caesar as Lazlo Cozart Jeff Corey as Aspa Soldado Max Gail as Ragsdale Roz Kelly as Flaps Michael DeLano as Carlo Lenzi Bryan O'Byrne as Oakes, zoo watchman Tracy Curtis as Gymnast Irene Cagen as Rita (credited as Irene Forest) Bruce French as Summers, hospital administrator Mari Gorman as Sophie Elizabeth Grey as Charlene H.B. Haggerty as Marion 'Popeye' Sykes Crofton Hardester as Gianni Howard Honig as Harker Rosanna Locke as Jennifer Robert Nadder as Hank, morgue attendant Reception Broadcast Curse of the Black Widow was first broadcast on ABC on September 16, 1977. ABC would later re-broadcast the film in 1979, under the alternate title Love Trap. Critical response Curse of the Black Widow received a mixed response from critics upon its original broadcast, with some criticizing the film's inadequate special effects and script. Videohound's Golden Movie Retrievers Jim Craddock rated the film a mixed score of two out of four bones. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter awarded the film two out of four stars, criticizing the film's script as being "recycled". In his book Television Fright Films of the 1970s, David Deal commended the film's cast, cinematography, and "old fashioned sense of fun". Deal then went on to note that, while the film was reasonably entertaining, its "meandering story" and 'forced sense of legitimacy' proved detrimental to its overall success. The film